She's now at CHRD and learned her lesson because CHRD doesn't divulge any information about itself. All they have is a collection of articles they get from other places.

Yet just a few days ago the Guardian wrote:

According to data gathered by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a US-based NGO, between 2017 and 2019, there were 29 cases of law firms or lawyers having their licences revoked or suspended, compared with nine cases between 2014 and 2016.

Which means this no-name, opaque NGO is able to investigate this kind of stuff. Who pays for it? Like I get doing a labor of love but I also doubt people like Sophie Richardson don't have a source of income.

In a way it makes them glow even more because you have to wonder how exactly that no-name NGO with a website made in 2008 counts as a job. This is the only job she has listed on her linkedin, along with her previous title at HRW and a one-year stint as a 'visiting scholar' at Stanford in-between the two.

CHRD on linkedin itself has only 2-10 employees; this is filled in by how many people list them as their employer. They have a "Team associate" living in Hong Kong... unfortunately, their profile is private. CHRD is based in Washington ostensibly as it lists two employees in washington, one of them being Sophie.

OSINT is a joke but sometimes we can still use a bit of it lol

Some people use totanota but imo it's kind of all the same. Email is not designed for privacy because of the protocols it's based on which are super old. Assume all email can be backdoored.

I heard recently that my government has mandated that from now on disability assessments be recorded by the company providing them because there were too many denials. You mean they didn't do that before??

You need a lawyer from the start but of course lawyers are expensive and people who ask for welfare are not swimming in money, contrary to what right wingers want us to believe. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Thank you everyone. The circular pipeline basically goes like this:

CIA does the actual heavy lifting and finds the documents, maps, testimonies, etc. -> they are sent to journalists or NGOs to base a story on -> the state department uses the resulting articles to make policy -> the journalists receive an award from a state dept. NGO to deflect criticism of the "investigation".

OSINT is a lie, it's the CIA all the way down, philanthropy isn't real.

One more thing because I know a lot of people use proton. In 1970 a longstanding company based in Switzerland, Crypto AG, was found to have been owned by the CIA. An investigation found that the swiss intelligence services benefited from this relationship for years. Today, Proton Mail is based in switzerland despite not being owned or founded by swiss nationals. in 2024, they ran a raffle fundraiser and the first beneficiary of the raised money they listed was fucking freedom house. There is now a clear link between proton and the state department through freedom house.

My answer is I learn things, I work on several projects both individual and in groups, I solve problems for them, etc.

"Oh so you do nothing?"

... yes Ken, I do nothing. Exactly. I'm not paid for it so it doesn't count as anything.

Although they did do the whole “You’ll get better soon,” thing, and imply that I can get back to work eventually

I get where they come from but at some point it's like, no. you won't "just" get better. Science doesn't have all the answers and sometimes the only thing you are left with is to accept it. It gives people false hope and repeats things they have heard a hundred times already. Sometimes it also implies that the patient hasn't done everything they could and should find that magical cure that doesn't exist. Which cure? Well you know, the one that you don't know about, your doctor doesn't know about, even the person telling you about this cure doesn't know what it is. But still, have you tried it??

Everyone thinks they know how they would act better than you in a given situation but they would never want to be put into it.

This is the type of content I log on for 🫡

Jews are not a nation. You are arguing for the French nation to have a state, which they do and have had for centuries, and comparing that to a state for a religion, and a state that has only existed since 1947 at that.

A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life and culture.

Not one of those key points applies to Jews, just like it doesn't apply to Christians or Buddhists. Jews are not a stable community of people, they do not share a common language, nor a territory and culture. Ashkenazim Jews are far different from Arab Jews and likewise from Sephardic Jews. Before zionism there were communities of Jews -- like I said, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Iraqi Jews, Syrian Jews (often lumped as 'Mizrahi' Jews, which is contentious), etc. These form a nation, but Jews as a whole do not.

What is a nation however is Palestine, traceable through their own Jewish ancestors too in fact, before they converted or were forcibly converted to Christianity and later to Islam.

Why should everyone get their state? What goal does that achieve, aside from making people feel good about it? Jews lived perfectly fine in Palestine under the Ottoman Empire. It wasn't a paradise civically but it was also a feudal empire that stopped existing over a century ago and for the middle ages it was pretty progressive, certainly much better than living in Europe. There is no humanitarian reason that Jews can't live in Palestine alongside Palestinians in a pluralistic Palestinian state. The reason they were given a state was to finally get them out of Europe once and for all and finish what Hitler had started - because Churchill was certainly cheering on Hitler until war was declared and like a good lapdog, he followed.

The problem with 'Israel' in any case is not its theoretical existence in a vacuum, it's that its existence immediately supposes colonization and the displacement of natives. You say why not have "Israel" in Europe, but Jews lived in Europe for centuries. Why can't they continue living in Germany or Poland like they've done for thousands of years before zionism was even a thing? Having "Israel" in Europe will lead to the same thing they are doing in Palestine. The only solution to protect the dignity of life is integrating Jews, and by extension all religions, into civil society. China manages it perfectly. Those communities/nations I spoke of earlier could certainly have self-determination, but inside a state, not as their own sovereign state - for one, because that state would not solve any problems, and because it couldn't be one state with contiguous borders. You couldn't make a single Sephardic state without running into the same problem as "Israel". Is a Sephardic Jew who has lived all his life in Morocco suddenly a national of an "Israel" in Spain, and expected to abandon his life in Morocco to go live there? That would make 0 sense, and it would be the exact same thing as current "Israel".

Yes, there was antisemitism in Europe. There still is. But 1- our antisemitism is not Palestine's problem, and 2- we are able to move past our reactionary ideas.

Conversely I talked to Kit Klarenberg a couple times and he was super nice each time

I could charge mine, but it was very slow and didn't work on the dock. You just reminded me of this lol, I forget every time you need the Nintendo cable

brb forming the Robespierre

thank you once again Jakkkobin

yeah install spicetify on your pc. for phone there's a few blockers too but it's kind of a hassle. the dev behind spotube is rewriting his app too

Well now I'm doubly happy I installed spicetify and am leeching their bandwidth for free without even getting an ad.

Cold showers at home!

missiles were meant to fly

15 hours old account made expressly to respond to this topic that was once deleted and has been undeleted by the author

hmm

That's great. Can you explain why you - sorry, I meant Wisconcom, who is obviously not you - have been a self-proclaimed hoxhaist for years, then when your defunct red spectre thing said that hoxha was actually a revisionist you followed along and edited his page to reflect that, but as soon as red spectre went defunct you undid Philip's whatever-his-fake-name-is edit?

User and perhaps known content creator The Statesian Bolshevik was banned from revolupedia for, as per his own claim, not following along with repudiating hoxha - perhaps that is why you obeyed the order, so that you wouldn't get banned from the red spectre? Only rehabilitating hoxha when it became safe to do so, after the red spectre had disbanded and you gained complete control over revolupedia, not tied to any organization anymore.

Following the dissolution of red spectre you also banned all of its membersfrom revolupedia with no reason attached in the log. Can people expect this kind of treatment if they join revolupedia too? The block list names can be compared to the red spectre constitutional document for verification.

Now you call yourself a maoist, flip-flopping between positions never quite picking one to stand on as for years prior you called yourself a hoxhaist, until you decided some time ago that it wasn't actually the right term (despite using it yourself, and insisting that you were always an anti-revisionist marxist-leninist instead).

Just wondering. since you say revolupedia has internal democracy and is grounded in marxist theory you probably won't mind answering these questions. People deserve to know if they can expect this kind of opportunism and ideology shopping to be going on if they join, and what kind of 'internal democracy', as per your other comment, you managed to build on that shaky foundation, because you have not given any examples.